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Overview

Description

The Tenth Edition of the best-selling text Campbell BIOLOGY helps launch students to success in biology through its clear and engaging narrative, superior pedagogy, and innovative use of art and photos to promote student learning.

The Tenth Edition helps students develop a deeper understanding of biology by making connections visually across chapters and building the scientific skills needed for success in upper-level courses.

New Make Connections Figures pull together content from different chapters visually, helping students see “big picture” relationships.

Features

Key Concepts: Each chapter in the Tenth Edition is organized around a manageable framework of three to six Key Concepts that provide the context for supporting details, helping students distinguish the forest from the trees.

The Key Concepts at the beginning of the chapter orient students to the main ideas of the chapter.

Numbered Concept Heads keep students focused on the main ideas as they move through the chapter and make it easy for instructors to assign selected sections.

Concept Check Questions at the end of each section provide a hierarchical framework for self-assessment.

The Summary of Key Concepts, which includes summary diagrams and questions, refocuses students on the main points.

Make Connections: The Tenth Edition helps students make connections across biology topics.

NEW! Make Connections Figures pull together content from different chapters and provide a visual representation of “big picture” relationships.

Make Connections Questions ask students to relate the content of a chapter to what they learned earlier in the course.

Make Connections Tutorials in MasteringBiology® connect content from two different chapters using art from the book.

NEW! Synthesize Your Knowledge Questions at the end of the chapter ask students to apply their understanding of the chapter content to explain an intriguing photo.

Scientific Inquiry Skills: The Tenth Edition teaches scientific skills in every chapter and engages students in scientific inquiry, revealing “how we know what we know” and helping students develop their critical-thinking and inquiry skills and revealing "how we know what we know."

Genomics: The Tenth Edition explores the impact of genomics across biology. Throughout the Tenth Edition, new examples show students how our ability to sequence DNA and proteins rapidly and inexpensively is transforming every subfield of biology, from cell biology to physiology to ecology.

NEW! The basic steps of gene expression are now shown in Chapter 1 so that, from the very beginning of their study of biology, students have an understanding of how genes determine the characteristics of an organism.

NEW! Chapter 5 concludes with a new concept, “Genomics and proteomics have transformed biological inquiry and applications,” which includes a new Make Connections Figure, “Contributions of Genomics and Proteomics to Biology.”

NEW! Throughout the Tenth Edition, new examples show how biology is being revolutionized by DNA and protein sequence analysis.

Evolution: The core theme of evolution is emphasized throughout the Tenth Edition.

Chapter 1 introduces the fundamental theme of evolution in biology.

Every chapter includes at least one Evolution section that explicitly focuses on evolutionary aspects of the chapter material.

Every chapter ends with an Evolution Connection Question that asks students to think critically about how an aspect of the chapter relates to evolution.

Unit 4 provides in-depth coverage of evolutionary mechanisms, while Unit 5 explores the diversity of life in an evolutionary framework.

Online Homework: MasteringBiology® is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience. All assignments are automatically graded and entered into a powerful gradebook. For more information, see the description of MasteringBiology under “eLearning & Assessment.”

Assessment:Campbell BIOLOGY and MasteringBiology work together to help your students succeed.

MasteringBiology Reading Quizzes motivate the students to read the text prior to class.

Scientific Skills Exercises and Interpret the Data questions in the text help students build key skills in biology. These exercises and questions are also assignable in MasteringBiology.

Concept Check questions, What If Questions, Make Connection questions, Draw It questions, figure legend questions, multiple-choice questions, and short-answer essay questions in the text help students assess their own learning.

Clicker Questions promote active learning in class.

MasteringBiology tutorials, activities, and questions reinforce learning before and after class.

New to This Edition

Make Connections: The Tenth Edition helps students make connections visually.

NEW! Make Connections Figures pull together content from different chapters and provide a visual representation of “big picture” relationships. These figures help overcome students’ tendencies to compartmentalize information by reinforcing deeper conceptual connections throughout biology. For example, Figure 10.23, “Make Connections: The Working Cell,” uses striking three-dimensional artwork to illustrate how a generalized plant cell functions, integrating the cellular activities students learned about in Chapters 5-10. In Figure 40.22, “Make Connections: Life Challenges and Solutions in Plants and Animals,” pairs of engaging photos with text descriptions underscore how fundamental principles of physiology apply to diverse organisms.

NEW! Synthesize Your Knowledge Questions at the end of the chapter ask students to apply their understanding of the chapter content to explain an intriguing photo.

Using the Hardy-Weinberg Equation to Interpret Data and Make Predictions

Interpreting Data Values Expressed in Scientific Notation

Interpreting a Graph with Log Scales

Using the Logistic Equation to Model Population Growth

NEW! Interpret the Data Questions ask students to analyze a graph, figure, or table.

Genomics: The Tenth Edition explores the impact of genomics across biology.

Throughout the Tenth Edition, new examples show students how our ability to sequence DNA and proteins rapidly and inexpensively is transforming every subfield of biology, from cell biology to physiology to ecology.

NEW! The basic steps of gene expression are now shown in Chapter 1 so that students have an understanding of how genes determine the characteristics of an organism from the very beginning of their study of biology.

NEW! Chapter 5 concludes with a new concept, “Genomics and proteomics have transformed biological inquiry and applications,” introducing these topics early in the book. This concept also includes a new Make Connections Figure, “Contributions of Genomics and Proteomics to Biology,” which previews some examples of how genomics and proteomics have helped shed light on biological questions. These examples are explored in greater depth later in the text.

NEW! Throughout the Tenth Edition, new examples show how biology is being revolutionized by DNA and protein sequence analysis. For example, Chapter 41 includes new material on what genomic studies tell us about how the bacterium Helicobacter pylori disrupts human health, including Figure 41.12 on the phylogenetics of the stomach microbiome.

Online Homework: MasteringBiology offers a wide variety of engaging assignment options to help all students succeed.

NEW! All 56 Scientific Skills Exercises from the text can be assigned in MasteringBiology to help students build key skills including data analysis, graphing, experimental design, and math skills.

NEW! Interpret the Data Questions ensure that students get training, practice, and feedback in working with data. These assignable questions in MasteringBiology are based on the new Interpret the Data questions in the text.

NEW! Solve It Activities engage students in a multi-step investigation of a “mystery” or open question in which students must analyze real data.

NEW! Adaptive Follow-Up Assignments provide personalized remediation to students on topics they struggle with in their MasteringBiology homework assignments.

NEW! Dynamic Study Modules, designed to enable students to study effectively on their own, help students quickly access and learn the information they need to be more successful on quizzes and exams. These modules can be accessed on mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, and computers. The testing system uses an algorithm designed to facilitate learning, and students get feedback from the textbook on both right and wrong answers.